James Vega wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Alexey I. Froloff <ra...@altlinux.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 17:07, Bram Moolenaar <b...@moolenaar.net> wrote: > >> It's a bit more complicated than that. Checking for tinfo before > >> ncurses might work on some machines. But does it work everywhere? Or > >> do we need to add checks for what the library needs to contain? > > If tinfo exists, then the symbols Vim uses will be there instead of in > ncurses. AC_SEARCH_LIBS does look like the right way to check whether > the system is using the split ncurses libs or the monolithic lib. > > > If you use symbols from a library, you must link your application against > > this particular library, but not a library that is also linked against it. > > > > vim uses no symbols from libncurses itself, > > That obviously depends on how the libraries are built. Fedora/RedHat > build ncurses using the --with-termlib configure option which splits the > terminfo library out to its own file. I wonder how common that is and > whether all the distributions which build with the split libraries use > the same name.
This suggests that "tinfo" was added later, and if it exists it should work to replace ncurses. However, if some system has a "tinfo" library that doesn't have all the symbols that Vim needs this will fail. That might be unlikely enough to make the change now and wait for users to complain. -- Every person is responsible for the choices he makes. /// Bram Moolenaar -- b...@moolenaar.net -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
